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Elephant Foot Glacier, Greenland.

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The Elephant Foot Glacier is located on the Kronprins Christian Land peninsula.

It is not connected to Greenland’s main ice sheet. Rather, it’s part of a network of glaciers and ice caps that hangs around the periphery of the island.

Research has shown that as a whole, these outlying glaciers and ice caps account for 5 to 7 percent of Greenland’s total ice coverage, but they are responsible for 20 percent of its contribution to sea level rise.